GRAPHIC — Video Surfaces of Mass Shooting in Bar near Cancun

New video surfaced on social media in Mexico showing in graphic detail the moment when two cartel gunmen walked to a bar near Cancun and shot 12 patrons before fleeing. No arrests have been made in the case to date.

New surveillance video now shared among social media accounts throughout Mexico depicts in gruesome detail the moment when two gunmen walk up to the crowd, brandish two pistols, and begin shooting at random for several seconds before fleeing on foot.

The escalating violence in the once peaceful tourist area of Cancun and Playa Del Carmen is apparently tied to a turf war between rival cartels, particularly over street-level drugs sales and business protection rackets.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.

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